Kenyan Cabinet stops talks with Churches on constitution
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The Kenyan Cabinet presided over by President Mwai Kibaki and attended by the PM Raila Odinga has on Tuesday afternoon ruled out any changes to the proposed Constitution. This has come at a time when negotiations between the government and Churches were going on with the second meeting set for Wednesday. [...]
Kenya cancels agreement with the West to try Somali pirates in the country
Listen Luxembourg (Alshahid) – The government of Kenya formally announced it wants to stop prosecuting suspected Somali pirates and has also cancelled prosecution agreements it had with various naval powers such as UK and Denmark. This comes as the European Union offered support on Monday to Kenya and the Seychelles to continue to judge and [...]
Obama’s Presidency…Failing Somalia
Listen Somalia’s aggravating situation gets worse every passing day, there is neither hope nor change for the country’s endless crisis, an opposing sentiment to US president Obama’s pre-election promise to build a foreign policy that largely rested in the believe of hope and change. “Indeed the historic victory of President Obama has created profound prospect [...]
ICC Seeks UN Security Council help To Deal With Sudan
Listen Khartoum (Alshahid) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has sought the help of UN Security Council to compel Sudan to co-operate with its tribunal in Darfur region. Through a request made to the ICC judges on Thursday the Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo wants the judges to issue a warrant of non-compliance against [...]
William Ruto: Appears set for 2012 Presidential Elections
Listen The new Kenya’s Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Mr. William Ruto, appears well set for 2012 Presidential elections against Orange Democratic Party (ODM) wishes and strategy. Mr. Ruto, born in 1966 and a Botany graduate of the University of Nairobi, has been a shrewd and combative politician since he joined active politics. He [...]
AU to set up Pan African varsity in East Africa
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The African Union is set to start a Pan African University (PAU) charged with promotion of science and technology in Eastern Africa. This was revealed on Tuesday during a meeting of Education Ministers from the region in Nairobi Kenya. The clear location of the new university hub and its satellite campuses [...]
TJRC mess: Kenya civil society to blame for appointing Kiplagat
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid)- Former Justice Minister Martha Karua has thrown the ball back to the court of the civil society that has been calling for the resignation of Truth Justice and Reconciliation (TJRC) Chairman Mr Bethuel Kiplagat by blaming them for the mess at TJRC. “The TJRC Act takes the process of appointing the commissioners [...]
24 MPs join churches to oppose Kenya draft law
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – Politicians on Thursday joined churches when a group of 24 MPs formed a caucus to campaign against the proposed Constitution at the forthcoming referendum. Led by Cabinet Ministers William Ruto (Agriculture) and Amason Jeffa Kingi (East African Community), the leaders cited concerns on a powerful presidency as well as issues regarding [...]
Kenyan President, PM and Church Meeting deadlocked on draft
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – A meeting between President Mwai Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and church leaders to seek consensus to the draft Constitution apparently ended in a stalemate on Thursday. One of the clergymen at the negotiations which started in the morning into the early part of Thursday afternoon told reporters that the two [...]
Raila, Museveni hold talks on Migingo
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid) – The row over the ownership of Migingo Island will end on a happy note once the joint survey by Kenya and Uganda is completed, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni have said. During talks at the State House in Entebbe, Uganda on Friday, the two leaders called for [...]